Rating:
53821
{43}%
2 votes
Olympic Discovery Trail - Johnson Creek Trestle
Photos
From below
Hard to find good lighting down there....
Photo taken by Jann Mayer in April 2011
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #241043
Description
This curved trestle is the largest on the Olympic Peninsula. It is now part of the Olympic Discovery Trail and is open to bikes and pedestrians.
Facts
- Overview
- Timber stringer bridge over Johnson Creek on Olympic Discovery Trail/Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road)
- Location
- Clallam County, Washington
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1914 by the Seattle, Port Angeles and Western Railway Company, later owned by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road), abandoned in 1985 and converted to a bike trail
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway (SPA&W)
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Dimensions
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Total length: 410.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +48.06183, -123.05413 (decimal degrees)
48°03'43" N, 123°03'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/495966/5323174 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sequim
- Inventory number
- BH 53821 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 6, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Rail-to-trail", "Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad", "Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway"
- October 6, 2012: Added by Jann Mayer
Sources
- Jann Mayer - jannmayer [at] gmail [dot] com